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What is LIS?
LIS brochure (pdf 747kb)
LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?
Income Growth in Peru: who is on Board and who is Left Behind?
Analysing the Peruvian data from 2004 to 2019, this article shows how income growth has been beneficial for some groups of the society, but how it left other groups behind.
Explaining the child poverty outcomes of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Child poverty rates are relatively low in East Asia. The authors present common characteristics contributing to their relative poverty success.
The Paradox of Redistribution in Time
This article supplies various indicators to measure how pro-poor or pro-rich social benefits are.
2022 Autumn Data Splash
LIS is happy to announce the addition of eleven datasets to the LIS Database and four datasets to the LWS Database.